Slavonians

Actually, the article states that these "Slavonians" came from Dalmatia. this makes sense because Dalmatians have a maritime heritage.

languagehat.com: SLAVONIAN. 2005

The Croats were transformed from roving bands of freebooters, in the manner of the infamous Baron von Trenck, into an organized establishment of regiments under the direction of Prince Joseph Saxe-Hildburghausen: two Warasdiner regiments, four of Carlstadter, and three of Slavonians.

Archive 2008-01-01 Der Alte Fritz 2008

It is not unlikely that the Slavonians came from the distant

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

I have ever agreed, having read a few historical books for amusement, that you are a very ancient people, and your origin may be dated much farther back than that of the Teutones, the Celts, the Slavonians, the Angles, and Hurons.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

This was a powerful idea—a unified Balkan kingdom encompassing twelve million people including Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Slavonians, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims, and Albanian Muslims from the old ancestral region of Kosovo.

Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

This was a powerful idea—a unified Balkan kingdom encompassing twelve million people including Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Slavonians, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims, and Albanian Muslims from the old ancestral region of Kosovo.

Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

This was a powerful idea—a unified Balkan kingdom encompassing twelve million people including Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Slavonians, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims, and Albanian Muslims from the old ancestral region of Kosovo.

Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

So, since Slavonian is in neither Merriam-Webster's Collegiate nor even the Encyclopedia of the Peoples of the World, let me remedy the laziness of the magazine's editors and tell you that Slavonians are from Slavonia, a region of eastern Croatia well known in Zagreb and Belgrade but not, I fear, among the readership of the New Yorker.

languagehat.com: SLAVONIAN. 2005

This was a powerful idea—a unified Balkan kingdom encompassing twelve million people including Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Slavonians, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims, and Albanian Muslims from the old ancestral region of Kosovo.

Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

Rumanians, Tran - sylvanians, Croats, Slavonians ... it's always the same:

Poland Michener, James 1983